After a multi-year break because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 51st Western Illinois University Ag Mech Club s Farm Expo will be held from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, March 4 and from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, March 5 in Western Hall.
Change is very rarely an easy thing. But it is necessary. As our circumstances and situations change around us, adapting to meet those conditions helps us to make progress.
It wasn t the strange looks they got for intentionally damaging their corn crop, or the hundreds of pounds of ice they had to haul to campus to hurl at their corn plants – it was the industry-changing research that resulted that brought two Western Illinois University Emeritus Agriculture faculty members acclaim for creating more accurate hail damage tables for the insurance industry; tables which are still used today.